General system theory: foundations, development, applications

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Pagina 231Probably biological time bears an intimate although by no means simple relation
to thermodynamic time. How the categories of experience depend on
physiological states, is also shown by the action of drugs. Under the influence of
mescaline, ...

Pagina 232(i.e., the experience of the average adult European of the twentieth century) , and
to consider all other sorts of experience that are equally vivid, as merely
abnormal, fantastic or, at best, a primitive precursor to our "scientific" world
picture.

Pagina 241Similarly, it is well possible to indicate which traces of experience correspond to
reality, and which, comparable to the colored fringes in the field of a microscope
which is not achromatically corrected, do not. So Pilate's question, "What is Truth,
" ...